Cloud Computing-Overview

Cloud computing is a hugely important evolution in the way that businesses and individuals consume and operate computing. It's a fundamental shift to an operational model in which applications don't live out their lives on a specific piece of hardware and in which resources are more flexibly deployed than was the historical norm. It's a fundamental shift to a development and consumption model that replaces hard-wired, proprietary connections among software components and the consumers of those components with lightweight Web services and Web-based software access.

As an added benefit for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Premium subscribers, Red Hat Cloud Access is a subscription feature that enables qualified enterprise customers to migrate their current subscriptions for use at select Amazon EC2.

Red Hat delivers the infrastructure needed for reliable, agile, and cost-effective cloud computing. Red Hat's cloud vision is unlike that of any other IT vendor.

We recognize that your IT infrastructure is - and will continue to be - composed of pieces from many different hardware and software vendors. We enable you to use and manage these diverse assets as one cloud. Enabling cloud to be an evolution, not a revolution or a monolithic stack locked to the technology roadmap and business practices of a single vendor.

• The most comprehensive solutions for clouds - both private and public.
• Consistent enterprise-class environments that bridge the physical and virtual world, inside the datacenter and public clouds.
• Strategic flexibility without lock-in.
• Better infrastructure, designed specifically for multi-tenant clouds.
• Industry-leading ecosystem that makes cloud usable, accessible, and safe.